Comments on: For the love of parrots http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/24/for-the-love-of-parrots/ Knowledge is Scrumptious Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/24/for-the-love-of-parrots/comment-page-1/#comment-496 Anonymous Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:03:09 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/24/for-the-love-of-parrots/#comment-496 Vamsi - This is amazing. They look a little bit like the Rajapalayam Kombai dogs of Tamil Nadu. I may be wrong. They have really short-hair - sort of feels like suede. I dont know if Kombai is nocturnal. Really amazing. Thanks for sharing this with me. I read that cats have the ability to turn wild, if they aren't handled by humans in the 1st 3 weeks after their eyes open. - Priya Vamsi – This is amazing. They look a little bit like the Rajapalayam Kombai dogs of Tamil Nadu. I may be wrong. They have really short-hair – sort of feels like suede. I dont know if Kombai is nocturnal. Really amazing. Thanks for sharing this with me.

I read that cats have the ability to turn wild, if they aren’t handled by humans in the 1st 3 weeks after their eyes open.

- Priya

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/24/for-the-love-of-parrots/comment-page-1/#comment-495 Anonymous Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:31:21 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/24/for-the-love-of-parrots/#comment-495 I think once adapted none of the animals held under captivity can survive in the wild. They would lose their instincts. Same would be the case of many domesticated species like dogs, cats etc. Check my blog <a href="http://surrealimage.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">surrealimage</a> on Wild Hounds I have seen closely. They are wild as well as pet. They survive as if in wild if we let them do so. I think once adapted none of the animals held under captivity can survive in the wild. They would lose their instincts. Same would be the case of many domesticated species like dogs, cats etc.

Check my blog surrealimage on Wild Hounds I have seen closely. They are wild as well as pet. They survive as if in wild if we let them do so.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/24/for-the-love-of-parrots/comment-page-1/#comment-492 Anonymous Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:34:28 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/24/for-the-love-of-parrots/#comment-492 Ramesh - I think all religions assume that humans are the culmination of karma OR that humans are the masters of all animals. Hence my question. Yes, captivity needs a reason. Unless the reason is good, we shouldn't hold the poor animals prisoners - regardless of the conditions in which they are kept. I'm ok if we have a wildlife reserve & have the animals there. But, that's not really captivity - just habitat preservation. Pets - Dogs, cats & a few other animals live with us because it benefits them. Their genes have changed to adapt to this. I don't think we should keep other animals as pets. - Priya Ramesh – I think all religions assume that humans are the culmination of karma OR that humans are the masters of all animals. Hence my question.

Yes, captivity needs a reason. Unless the reason is good, we shouldn’t hold the poor animals prisoners – regardless of the conditions in which they are kept. I’m ok if we have a wildlife reserve & have the animals there. But, that’s not really captivity – just habitat preservation.

Pets – Dogs, cats & a few other animals live with us because it benefits them. Their genes have changed to adapt to this. I don’t think we should keep other animals as pets.

- Priya

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/24/for-the-love-of-parrots/comment-page-1/#comment-494 Anonymous Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:26:27 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/24/for-the-love-of-parrots/#comment-494 Thanks Harish. I'm surprised. I thought you were a bit traditional & would uphold what the ancients said & did. Looks like I got you wrong. On (2) - the only problem is this. Who decides what abuse is? I once saw a rhino is a zoo. The enclosure wasn't bad, it wasn't ill-treated or anything. But, it was so bored & frustrated that it was banging its head against the shed. Sad to see. - Priya Thanks Harish. I’m surprised. I thought you were a bit traditional & would uphold what the ancients said & did. Looks like I got you wrong.

On (2) – the only problem is this. Who decides what abuse is? I once saw a rhino is a zoo. The enclosure wasn’t bad, it wasn’t ill-treated or anything. But, it was so bored & frustrated that it was banging its head against the shed. Sad to see.

- Priya

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/24/for-the-love-of-parrots/comment-page-1/#comment-498 Anonymous Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:20:46 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/2007/04/24/for-the-love-of-parrots/#comment-498 Thanks NK. Agree with you fully. Perhaps we can hold animals in captivity to save them, if they are on the brink of extinction? Especially, if our activities have caused habitat destruction that led to their precarious position? - Priya Thanks NK. Agree with you fully.

Perhaps we can hold animals in captivity to save them, if they are on the brink of extinction? Especially, if our activities have caused habitat destruction that led to their precarious position?

- Priya

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